Abell Administration building, front entrance. There is a car parked in front of the building, and a crane is visible to the left. Abell was once part of the old Louisville General Hospital. Current uses: Houses Medical School administration and...

The building that is now Abell Administration Center, flanked by the other wings of the old Louisville General Hospital. A car is partially visible parked along the curb in front of the hospital; the brick street and street railway tracks can be...

Formerly Louisville's major clinical instruction hospital, the Louisville General Hospital (LGH) was affiliated with the UofL School of Medicine. The hospital dates to the Louisville Marine Hospital, which was founded in the early 1820s. A center...

Louisville Hall; this building has a distinct "step" roofline. A parking lot with vehicles is in the foreground and Unitas Tower can be seen to the right of Louisville Hall.Current uses: Dormitory. Awards won: 1992 Citation Award,...

The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of TI-Nspire graphing calculator use on student achievement and on teacher behavior variables of planning, teaching, and assessing. This study investigated the teaching of functions by teachers...

Elementary school principals--Attitudes; Educational leadership; Sex role in the work environment; Sex role--Psychological aspects

Research has shown that various leadership styles have different impacts on leader outcomes such as satisfaction, extra effort, and effectiveness. Specifically, researchers have found that transformational leadership positively impacts follower...

Legal and illegal gambling opportunities are readily available to students on college campuses and surrounding areas (Saum, 1999). College students are at an age that is highly impressionable, experimental, and prime to taking risks while ignoring...

Federal legislation in 1992 entitled the Juvenile Justice Delinquency Prevention Act reordered many of the previous methods employed in the detention of juvenile offenders. Among the reform measures required by the act, there was a mandate to...

This thesis integrates James Messerschmidt's Masculinity Theory (1997) with Robert Agnew's General Strain Theory (1992) to examine the relationship between failure to achieve ideal masculine standards, resultant psychological stressors, and the...

Teacher candidates enter teacher preparation programs with grounded beliefs
about teaching and learning. These beliefs are especially problematic in the area of
mathematics, as they hinder instructional decisions (Karp 1988, 1991; Kolstad &...

The purpose of this study is to identify orthodontic residents' demographic trends, goals for the future, and perspectives on training. A 26-item survey, conducted at the Graduate Orthodontic Residency Program, in August 2003, was distributed to...

Oxidative stress has been implicated in aging and age-related diseases. Using three distinct studies, this dissertation examines associations between lifestyle factors and oxidative stress, and their effects on advanced glycation end products,...

The dissertation is based on four distinct research projects that are loosely interconnected by the common link of a regression framework. Chapter 1 provides an introductory outline of the problems addressed in the projects along with a detailed...

"If this generation of youth is lost, much of the hope for an economically, socially and technologically strong nation will also be lost." - Kuykendall, 1992 When youths become convinced that they will not be able to make it in mainstream...

Serious leisure theory (Stebbins, 1992) is used to frame this examination of women's long-term involvement in airplane piloting. Through in-depth, semi-structured telephone and e-mail interviews with women having over 15 years experience as private...

An interest in privileging the voices of women who are marginalized in many parts of the world coupled with knowledge of the restorative properties of music cultivated this qualitative study. Seven women, ages 20-49 years of age, from three...